University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 24, 1987
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Tomorrow is last day to drop without a W
Tomorrow is the last day for students to drop classes in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and in some other schools without receiving a W on their transcripts.
Students consult page 15 of the Fall 87 Timeline for details about how withdraws in each school are graded.
The enrollment center is open from 8 a.m. until noon and from 1 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. both today and tomorrow.
Dental records may identify dead man
KU records confirmed yesterday that Eric Osteen, whom friends and police think may be the unidentified man who fell to his death in Colorado, was never a KU student.
The man's body was found Sept. 3 at the base of the 365-foot Bridal Veil Falls, about a mile east of Telluride, Colo.
Meanwhile, Sheriff William Masters of San Miguel County in Colorado said yesterday that his office was waiting for dental records to confirm the body's identity
He confirmed that Osteen's parents had been contacted Tuesday in Missouri and were sending the records to Colorado.
The unidentified man apparently had told people that he was an art student named Eric from the University of Kansas.
Osteen was a student for two years at the Kansas City Art Institute, a fellow art institute student said Tuesday.
Brad Rinke, the fellow student, said Osteen had lived in Lawrence with Rinke and Rinke's mother for one month in the summer of 1893.
Five to compete for scholarships
Rhodes candidates are John Atkinson Creighton, Atwood senior; Larry B Pascal, Richardson, Tex.; Stephen C Moss, Rickson, Gladstone, Mo.; senior
Henrickson also will compete for a Marshall Scholarship, along with Matthew McPheron, Pratie Vickers and Kevin Widdowle, Fort Worth, Texas, senior.
The two scholarship programs, sponsored by the British government, give two-year grants to U.S. students for graduate study at British universities. The scholarships are awards for college achievement or academic achievement, personal character and leadership ability.
Marshall nominees will be notified in late November whether they have been selected for interment or whether that will determine the winners.
Rhodes nonnees will attend state interviews in the Kansas City area in the first week of December. The top choices from those interviews will go to district interviews, where final selections will be made.
Clarification
Information in a story in Tuesday's Kansan may have been unclear. Students living in temporary housing in residence halls who are not offered spots in permanent rooms will be allowed to stay in temporary housing until the end of the semester.
New health plan upsets KU workers
By MICHAEL HORAK
From staff and wire reports.
Representatives of KU's 1,600 classified employees are upset about a new state plan that would begin charging them for health insurance coverage.
Staff writer
Today they will take their complaints to Barbara Duncan, the health benefits administrator for the three-member state Health Care Commission, which negotiated the plan.
John Brothers, president of Classified Senate, will present a resolution critical of the commission's actions. The resolution was passed Tuesday by Classified Senate.
Classified employees are state civil service employees who do not teach. Classified senators, elected by their co-workers, represent the interests of the public and city administration and the Kansas Legislature.
The resolution asks for an independent body to investigate the way the state awards health insurance contracts, and it also calls for a law that would prohibit anyone except the Legislature from
"The consensus among classified employees is that what is being proposed is kind of a breach of obligation on the state's part," said Brothers, who were hired by the state under the understanding that they would find full health care benefits . . . Now we find out they won't."
reducing health care benefits for state employees.
The controversy over health care benefits began earlier this month when the commission announced the award of the state's health insurance contract to Blue Cross-Blue Shield, the only company in the country with such coverage. The several million dollars the amount of money the state had budgeted for insurance coverage.
As a result, the commission decided state employees would pay the difference through monthly fees beginning Jan. 1. Those fees range from $500 to $600 on an employee's salary and smoking habits.
The new insurance plan also prohibits new employees from receiving state coverage during their first 60 days on the job.
H. Edward Flentje, chairman of the commission, said the increase in insurance costs was the result of increasing medical costs and a high hospitalization rate for state employees.
Last year, health-care costs for state employees ran $9 million in the red. Statistically, hospital admissions are 8 percent higher for state employees than for similar groups in the state. Flentje said.
Brothers said the insurance coverage under the new plan would make it difficult for some KU classified employees to afford health insurance. He said he knew of several employees who supported families on less than $800 a month who would most likely drop their coverage.
Brothers questioned why only one insurance carrier had submitted a bid. He also questioned the cost of the contract, which is higher than similar insurance companies and city employees throughout the state, he said.
He said he would ask Duncan to look at whether the state followed the most efficient procedure it could to award its insurance contract.
Lisa Jones/KANSAN
Fall harvest
Autumn skies form a scenic background as Skin Harrell, Lawrence resident, harvests a crop of milo from his fields southwest of town.
Hall custodial workers may get Sundays off
Staff writer
By BEN JOHNSTON Staff writer
For the second time this month, student-housing officials will give custodial employees a Sunday off to see whether the residence halls remain clean while the employees get a break on the weekend.
Jeff Carmody, assistant director of student housing for custodial services, said the housing office was experimenting with giving employees Sundays off and would make a better students and officials responded.
He said Sept. 13 was the first Sunday the custodial employees did not have to work, and this Sunday would be the second.
"We are checking to see if it is justified," Carmody said. "If there were problems last time, I would have gotten calls. Someone would have said, 'Hey this place looked like an open.' But I didn't get those calls."
ed last week because special days,
such as Parent's Day last week,
attracted more people to the halls,
needed more cleaning had to be
done.
Carmody said he didn't expect employees to be overburdened with work Monday because of the Sunday off.
"The volume of trash on a weekend will probably cause the employee to take a little longer to clean on Monday," Carmody said. "Maybe a half-hour to 45 minutes longer."
Susan Bell, hall manager at Joseph R. Pearson Hall, said giving custodial employees Sundays off would not save the housing office any money because the employees still would work 40 hours a week.
Carmody said the employees work
To make up for the four hours they will not work this Sunday, the employees will work half of the one baked; they usually do not work. Bell said.
High school student injures head in fight
By JAVAN OWENS
Staff writer
A Lawrence High School student is in serious condition at the University of Kansas Medical Center with head injuries he suffered during a fight with another student Tuesday afternoon.
Lawrence police spokesman Don Dalquest said the two youths had an earlier alteration in gym class before a teacher separated them.
Yuk "Kenny" Cheung is in the intensive care unit, where he is being treated for an internal head injury, a hospital spokesman said.
After school, the students began to fight again in front of the administration center building next to the high school.
Lawrence High School principal Brad Tate said yesterday that he did not know what started the conflict with his interviewing students and teachers.
nesses. The school will generate a written report using testimony by the students.
"There was an exchange of words earlier in the day. I don't know what that was," Tate said.
Police reported that during the struggle, Cheung was thrown against the building and then to the ground. After a teacher broke up the fight, the other student kicked Cheung in the face. Cheung then complained of dizziness.
Tate said there were several wit-
A Douglas County ambulance took Cheung to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for observation at 4 p.m., police reported.
A Lawrence Memorial spokesman said Cheung was examined at the hospital and later transported to the Med Center because Lawrence Memorial did not have a neurological specialist.
Dalquest said the case had been referred to juvenile court.
Kansan reporter Valorie Armstrong contributed information to this story.
Students circulate petition
JRP residents ask for parking
By NOEL GERDES and MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writers
David Conrod, Winfield senior, and David Heitmeyer, Shawnee junior, start circulating the petition Sun- and plan to give it to the board today.
Upset about not having enough places to park, 277 Joseph R. Pearson Hall residents have signed a petition asking the University of Kansas Parking Board to allow them access to parking spaces now off-limits behind their hall.
The petition asks the board to allow JRP residents to park in yellow zone spaces in lot 50, which is behind the fence. The same zone spaces in the same lot are filled.
Heitmeier said that JRP residents had struggled with parking problems since the start of the semester, when the lot changed from a combination yellow and white zone to a part brown zone only and part white zone only.
White zone permits are sold to students living in residence halls. Any student can purchase yellow zone permits.
Heitmeyer said residents filled the white zone spaces early every night, leaving those who arrived later no more than two hours into the new spaces, where they receive tickets.
Ray Moore, chairman of the parking board, said the board probably wouldn't allow residents to overflow into the yellow zone in lot 50 but would consider changing some yellow zone spaces there to white.
"I think the logical thing to do is
the allotment for dorm
barking."
The board will discuss JRP's park when it meets at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at 208 Strong Hall. Moore said the JRP issue had been placed on the agenda before he was told about the petition.
Moore said the board was trying to determine how many JRP residents had purchased white zone permits and how many of them could show how many spaces to consider adding.
But Conrod said JRP residents weren't certain whether they were allowed to park in the stadium lot. Also, Heitmeyer said he and others were reluctant to park there because the lot was not as convenient or as safe as the lot behind JRP.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services, said parking services allowed JRP residents to park in lot 59, a yellow zone on the west side of Kansas Memorial Stadium, without being ticketed.
Last year, JRP residents had parking problems because drivers with yellow zone permits would fill the combination lot behind the hall, leaving no room for residents' cars, Heitmeir said.
Heitmeier said that the board had done a good job of trying to help with last year's parking problem and that heitmeier probably try to help this time also.
To solve last year's problem, the parking board designated about 200 spaces for white zone permit only, based on the number of white zone permits sold to JRP residents last year. Hultine said.
Heitmeyer said that action had provided guaranteed spaces for JRP residents. But not enough were allotted, he said.
"I think if we are allowed to overflow into the yellow area it will be better than before," he said.
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